Sarmad Ghaled Dafar, 33, of Houston, Texas, was sentenced on April 18 to four months in federal prison and ordered to pay $23 ...

A Texas man was sentenced to prison for smuggling six baby Mexican spider monkeys into the United States, prosecutors ...

The crime was first discovered by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service officials when they stopped one of Dafar’s co-conspirators ...

A Texas man was sentenced to four months in custody for smuggling six rare baby spider monkeys over ... s Office said. The three monkeys who were taken by the San Diego Zoo have since been ...

The monkeys discovered while they were being illegally smuggled in Aug ... to both wildlife and public safety.” The baby monkeys were taken to the San Diego Zoo, where keepers determined ...